Literacy-English-ESOL - 1.1 Show understanding of specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), using supporting evidence

The texts listed below are young adult fiction most suited to NCEA Level 1 and level 6 of the curriculum as they tend to be narrative driven with fairly obvious messages:

1.1 Extended Texts

Text Title	Text Author	Comment
Non-Fiction
Follow The Rabbit-Proof Fence	Doris Pilkington
Going Solo	Roald Dahl
Hiroshima	John Hersey
Kinder Transport	Diane Samuels
Mihipeka	Mihi Edwards
Night	Elie Wiesel
Not Without My Daughter	Betty Mahmoody
The Blind Side	Michael Lewis
Touching The Void	Joe Simpson
Novels
A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove	James Maloney
Against the Odds	Matt Te Pou
A Kind of Loving	Stan Barstow
Animal Farm	George Orwell
An Ocean in Iowa	Peter Hedges
Black Like Me	John Howard Griffin
Blue Feather	Gary Crew
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Graphic Novel)
Children of the Dust	Louise Lawrence
Feed	M T Anderson
Finding Grace	Alyssa Brugman
Fighting Ruben Wolfe	Markus Zusak
I Coriander	Sally Gardner
I Heard the Owl Call My Name	Margaret Craven
Island of Shattered Dreams	Chantel T Spitz
Jolt	Bernard Beckett
Kidnap of Jessie Parker	William Taylor
Kit’s Wilderness	David Almond
Lester	Bernard Beckett
Letters from the Inside	John Marsden
Lionheart	Jesse Martin
Looking for Alibrandi	Melina Marchetta
Montana 1948	Larry Watson
Mutuwhenua	Patricia Grace
Northern Lights	Philip Pullman
Noughts and Crosses	Malorie Blackman
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
Orchard Street	Maurice Gee
Out Walked Mel	Paula Boock
Owl	Joanna Irwin
Peeling the Onion	Wendy Orr
Q+A	Vikas Swarup
Red Cliff	Bernard Beckett
Red Dog in Bandit Country	Fleur Beale
Red Necklace	Sally Garnder
Rocco	Sheryl Jordan
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred Taylor
Shadow Waters	Inna Furey
Sold	Zana Mushen
State Ward	Alan Duff
Strange Objects	Gary Crew
Sumitra’s Story	Rukshana Smith
Talking in Whispers	James Watson
Tangerine	Edward Bloor
Taronga	Victor Kelleher
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne
The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier
The Conch Bearer	Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Mark Haddon
The Fat Man	Maurice Gee
The Giver	Lois Lowry
The Highest Tide	Jim Lynch
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins
The Outlanders	Margaret Beames
The Pearl	John Steinbeck
The Running Man	Richard Bachman
The Ten PM Question	Kate de Goldi
The Wave	Morton Rhue
The Whole of the Moon	Duncan Stuart
This Boy’s Life	Tobias Wolfe
Thunder Road	Ted Dawe
Tomorrow When The War Began	John Marsden
Unwind	Neil Shustiman
Violence 101	Denis Wright
Water in the Blood	Alan Bunn
Whale Rider	Witi Ihimaera
Women for Walking	Witi Ihimaera
Z For Zachariah	Robert C O’Brien
Plays
An Inspector Calls	J B Priestley
A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams
Grace - Pat Spillane
Macbeth	Shakespeare
Niu Sila	Dave Armstrong and Oscar Kightley
Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare
Rosie	Pat Spillane
The Pohutukawa Tree	Bruce Mason
The Tempest	Shakespeare
Twelfth Night	Shakespeare
Twelve Angry Men	Reginald Rose
1.1 Short Texts
Poetry
	Maya Angelou
	Billy Collins
	Ruth Dallas
	Carol Ann Duffy
	Sia Figiel
	Seamus Heaney
	Sam Hunt
	Selina Tusitala Marsh
	Apirana Taylor
	Hone Tuwhare
Short Stories
	Roald Dahl
Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes
	Patricia Grace
Witi Ihimaera	Pounamu Pounamu&others
	Graham Lay
Flight	Doris Lessing
	Owen Marshall
Like Wallpaper	Carl Nixon
	Frank Sargeson
	Apirana Taylor
Visual Texts – Teachers will need to check the Censor’s rating for the following texts to ensure they follow the law. This web address will help:
www. Censorship.govt.nz/DDA/Pages/Screens/DDA/DecisionSearchCriteriaPage.aspx
About a Boy
Amelie
Bend it Like Beckham
Billy Elliot
Bowling for Columbine
Boy
Chocolat
Coach Carter
Dark Knight
Dead Poets’ Society
Field of Dreams
Forrest Gump
Freedom Writer’s Diary
Goodnight and Good Luck
In Pursuit of Happyness
Into the Wild
Invictus
Juno
MAS*H series
Mean Creek
October Sky
O Tamaiti (Short Film)
Purely Belter
Remember the Titans
Rabbit Proof Fence
Romeo and Juliet
Secondhand Wedding
Slumdog Millionaire
Spider Man
Stand By Me
Strictly Ballroom
Ten Things I Hate About You
The Basketball Diaries
The Blind Side
The Breakfast Club
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Hurricane
The Power of One
The Sapphires
The Strength of Water (NZ)
The Truman Show
The War Horse
The World’s Fastest Indian
Tomorrow When the War Began
Touching The Void
V For Vendetta
Walk the Line
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Short Stories
	Raymond Carver
	Kate Chopin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	F Scott Fitzgerald
	Janet Frame
	Patricia Grace
	Witi Ihimaera
	Katherine Mansfield
	Owen Marshall
Arrangement in Black and White	Dorothy Parker

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